Ingo, To prevent scheduling while irqs disabled, I added a force to the do_page_fault to enable interrupts.
The thing is, if the user faults at an address above PAGE_OFFSET. My stupid program that I attached to my last email did just that: unsigned long *p = (void*)-1; *p = 0xbed; where (void*)-1 is an address greater than PAGE_OFFSET. If I changed that address to (void*)1, the program still segfaulted, but I didn't get the warning about scheduling while interrupts disabled. I even put in a print to show if interrupts are disabled in do_page_fault before calling force_sig_info, and with (void*)-1 they were, and with (void*)1 they were not disabled. This patch forces interrupts to always be enabled when entering the user fault code. Maybe this should also be applied to mainline? This solves the one issue with scheduling while irqs disabled. -- Steve Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.21-rt9/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rt9.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c +++ linux-2.6.21-rt9/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c @@ -476,6 +476,10 @@ bad_area: bad_area_nosemaphore: /* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */ if (error_code & PF_USER) { + + /* it's possible to have interrupts off here */ + local_irq_enable(); + if (is_prefetch(regs, address, error_code)) return; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/